Monday, July 18, 2016

The fabled Naruto Online
MMORPG, launched in China way back in 2013, will finally make its way to the
West on July 20, courtesy of Bandai Namco Entertainment and Tencent Games. The
Naruto title will be free-to-play on the PC, and it will be nothing like the
Ninja Storm series: it will be the full-fledged MMORPG that some Western
audience segments have been yearning for since 2013.

According to Oasis Games, the
designer and publisher of the game, Naruto is based on the Naruto manga
storyline, in fact, it stays quite faithful to it. Apparently, Naruto Online
will be the only way to continue the story. Five new characters will be
featured in the MMO as well, one representing each of the five elements: Earth,
Wind, Fire, Water and Lightning. Players will be able to slip into the shoes of
each of these characters. There will be a single-player mode as well as a
multi-player mode, which will see parties of players raid dungeons and take on
various boss monsters.

The Naruto story will be covered
through nine separate arcs and it will allow players to visit iconic locations
from the Naruto universe, like the Village Hidden in the Sand, the Valley of
the End and the Village Hidden in the Leaf. Perhaps even more interestingly:
the game will feature the original voices from the anime, therefore its
authenticity will indeed be highly appealing to fans of the series.

Philip Thalberg works for the top destination
for eSports media,
Gosumedia.net.